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The Lenoir–Rhyne Bears are the athletic teams that represent Lenoir–Rhyne University, located in Hickory, North Carolina, in intercollegiate sports at the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Bears have primarily competed in the South Atlantic Conference [1] since the 1989–90 academic year.
The Lenoir–Rhyne Bears football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Lenoir–Rhyne University located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The team competes in the NCAA Division II and are members of the South Atlantic Conference. Lenoir–Rhyne's first football team was fielded in 1907.
Prior to competing in the NCAA, the university was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The LRU football team won the NAIA National Championship in 1960 and made three trips to the title game in four years. In 2013 the Lenoir–Rhyne football team made it to the 2013 NCAA Division II Football Championship ...
Nov. 4—Gov. Roy Cooper recently recognized the Lenoir-Rhyne University Men's Lacrosse and Women's Triathlon teams on winning the 2023 and 2022 NCAA National Championship in their respective sports.
Division II's Lenoir-Rhyne hadn’t produced an NFL player of note in nearly two decades prior to the 2020 NFL draft, so Hickory, North Carolina wasn’t a place many talent evaluators deemed ...
1975 - The South Atlantic Conference (SAC) was founded as a football-only conference. Charter members included Carson–Newman College (now Carson–Newman University), Catawba College, Elon College (now Elon University), Gardner–Webb College (now Gardner–Webb University), Lenoir–Rhyne College (now Lenoir–Rhyne University), Mars Hill College (now Mars Hill University), Newberry College ...
The 1961 Lenoir Rhyne Bears football team was an American football team that represented Lenoir Rhyne College (now known as Lenoir–Rhyne University) as a member of the Carolinas Conference during the 1961 college football season.
Young, a 6-foot-2 wide receiver out of Lenoir-Rhyne, had a breakout season in 2019. The talented playmaker had 25 catches for 515 yards and eight touchdowns. That’s an impressive 20.6 yards per ...